Refer to the exhibit. The IT team deployed a new Linux virtual machine for a software engineer to use, but the engineer is not comfortable configuring services using Bash. Which workflow is…

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Exhibit

Options

• ARestart the network on the eth0 interface and start the httpd service if it is not already started.
• BRestart the httpd service and start the network service for the eth0 interface.
• CStart the network service on the eth0 interface even if it was brought down manually.
• DRestart the httpd service and the network service regardless of the state.

• A
  86% (32)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

The key distinction is in how Ansible's 'state' parameter works. A task with 'state: restarted' applied to the network/eth0 interface will always restart it unconditionally. A task with 'state: started' applied to the httpd service is idempotent - Ansible will only start httpd if it is not already running; it will not restart a running service. This matches option A exactly. Option B reverses the services incorrectly. Option C is wrong because 'state: started' does not bring up an interface that was manually brought down (that would require 'state: up' with a network module). Option D is wrong because 'state: started' is not the same as 'state: restarted' and will not restart a service that is already running.

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